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I listened to most of the Yankees-Jays game on GameDay this afternoon; they played in Dunedin, which always sounds to me like a kingdom or race from Lord of the Rings. Wasn't Aragorn from there or something? Anyway, the Jeff Karstens bandwagon hit a pothole today, as he gave up...

So I was looking forward to getting a look at Kei Igawa tonight; he's the one potential Yankee starter I felt I had no real feel for. Unfortunately, having watched him pitch 3 innings, I still can't tell how good he is. Part of that is just it being spring,...

The Yankees made some cuts after the game tonight: Jackson, Kennard, Whelan, Duncan, Gonzalez, Miranda, Gardner, and 18-year-old outfield phenom Jose Tabata. Everyone knew they were coming, so there were a lot of twitchy, fidgeting minor leaguers clustered together around the locker room this afternoon. Afterwards I watched Tabata pack...

Andy Pettitte just threw a four-inning simulated game, which made for a distinctly surreal sight. For one thing, every third batter was Andy Phillips, who needed to get some work in -- having missed a week to be with his mother, who was severely injured in a car accident, but...